Guatemela elects conservative Giamattei as president
Turnout as low as 45% appeared to suggest widespread disillusionment with the political status quo in general.
Guatemalans to vote in close presidential runoff
Guatemalans voted Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting former first lady Sandra Torres against conservative Alejandro Giammattei in a nation beset by poverty and unemployment, and dealing with migration issues.
Lawyers say Border Patrol is only transferring migrants once it’s sued
Lawyers say they have noticed a pattern: Adults are detained in packed Border Patrol cells only to be moved within hours once the government is sued on their behalf.
Trump says Guatemala signing deal to restrict asylum cases
The so-called "safe third country" agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the U.S. to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the U.S. border.
Negotiations over a potential deal ended when Guatemala's Constitutional Court granted three injunctions preventing that country's president from entering into a deal.
Yazmin Juárez, a Guatemalan mother seeking asylum who appeared before a House panel Wednesday, said she testified because she wanted everyone to know about conditions in ICE detention. "I do not want more children to suffer."…
Sandra Torres has 24 percent of the vote, but a runoff ballot appears likely.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen recently declared a "compact” with El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, aiming to reduce their migration to the U.S. But since then, the Trump administration said it will cut aid to those countries, including to programs…
President Donald Trump twisted circumstances behind the deaths of two migrant Guatemalan children to insulate his administration from any blame, contending without justification that they were in dire health before they reached the border. Here's a look at the president's…
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